The article discusses the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop or Hitler-Stalin pact that was signed on August 23, 1939. It mentions that the Soviet Union has saved 12 million people including two million Jews in Poland from Hitler's...

We Jews abhor violence, especially when it is directed against a group targeted because of its culture, ethnicity or religion. The events of the past few months in the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia have been horrific. Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic has sent his army into the province to bring th...

Mauritius in 2000 held its seventh free election since independence, resulting in the third democratic transfer of power in its history. This article describes electoral politics since independence and demonstrates that, by virtue of their numbers, it also remains an inescapable fact that Indo-Mauri...

pt. 1. Health care, taxes, and guns: archetypal issues. Two systems in restraint: contrasting experiences with cost control in the 1990s / Robert Evans ; What price Canadian? taxation and debt compared / David Perry ; Between the sights: gun control in Canada and the United States / Leslie A. Pal --...

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is full of wonderful Mediterranean beaches, historical ruins dating as far back as Neolithic age, impressive medieval palaces and rugged mountains. Soli is one of the 10 ancient city kingdoms of Cyprus and dates back to at least 700 BCE. It flourished i...

Let me share with CJN readers an anecdote that, I believe, speaks to the tunnel vision we Jews in Canada exhibit politically. In the winter of 2000, while on vacation in Florda, I was criticizing the Liberal party's attitudes towards the Middle East to my mother in a small fruit store in Hallandale....

Focuses on the contribution of the poly-ethnic character of the Mauritian society on the democratic politics and economic success in Africa. Ethnic composition of the Mauritian society; Details on the formation of political parties and electoral system; Stability of the democratic political environm...

Visit Welchman Hall Gully, a fascinating primeval rain forest with 200 species of tropical plants. Tour the Barbados Wildlife Reserve at the northern tip of the island, with its Barbados green monkeys, tortoises, and other animals and birds. Join an island safari and hang on for dear life as your La...

Analyzes the complex interplay of traditional native and modern liberal secular politics in Fiji. Role of the Methodist Church in shaping an ethnic Fijian national consciousness; Influence of the church on the politics and governing institutions of the state; Description of the religious underpinnin...

Jews appear to have lived on [RHODES], the largest and easternmost of the 13 Dodecanese islands, since Roman times; they are mentioned in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. The famed medieval Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela founded a community of almost 500 Jews here in 1166....

Discusses the role of Canadian-born arctic explorer, scientist, and writer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), who, during the 1930's-40's, became active in the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidzhan (or Ambijan), a US Communist front organization that relocated Jews to eastern ...

On 7 May 1934, when Mikhail Kalinin officially declared Birobidzhan the Jewish Autonomous Region, [Reuben Brainin] recalled that the ICOR was the first organization outside the USSR to provide aid. "Long live the Leninist national policy of the Soviet Union!" proclaimed rapturous ICOR members. Brain...